Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Potato]

Heracles was a complete bastard

Again, I didn’t say that Greek heroes weren’t bastards and the Greek gods didn’t act like usual. But that Kratos was to unsympathetic to modern audiences.

Modern audiences need a trigger warning before the violence happens. Pussies.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

How does the abortion pill work? Do you just take it and the fetus / fertilized embryo goes away? Regardless, wish they had these when I was in high school and college.

[benji]

Goes into your toilet.

Where else would it go? Your pants I guess considering what forum this is.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Layoff thread, a bunch have already been posted.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-microsoft-lays-off-1-900-staff-from-its-video-game-workforce.809208/page-84?post=118255593#post-118255593

User Banned (2 Weeks): Hostility towards another member

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-microsoft-lays-off-1-900-staff-from-its-video-game-workforce.809208/page-89?post=118313730#post-118313730

User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing Fellow Members; Metacommetnary; Cross-Thread Drama: History of Accumulated Infractions

I'm not really interested in engaging in whataboutism but I'll humor you here for a second.

a) The point, which I was making to the post I was replying to, was that Microsoft is directly responsible for these firings, which y'know, they are.

b) As has been repeated countless times in this thread these layoffs impacted more than just ABK. On-top of that, many of the people laid off were people working on lifecycle projects (like COD or Overwatch), were internal Community Managers/Social Media (which ABK has in-house, Microsoft tends to outsource), or were part of ABKs extensive in-house customer support system. You have no idea if the layoff under Kotick would be worse, better or if layoffs would have occured at all (they likely would have but we will never know). ABK was more focused on doing "soft layoffs" with mandatory RTO and denying Doctors recommendations in order to get the attrition they needed.

On-top of all that, as I've said earlier in the thread, there is an absolutely difference between one company doing layoffs and two different companies doing layoffs, and thats the fact that they often don't overlap in the exact same way or teams are shedding different resources at different rates so people can go find jobs elsewhere.

I hope you reread your post and realize that your post is a lot of "well, actually" and trying to deflect from who pulled the trigger on these firings: Microsoft.

Microsoft even laid off 10,000 people just last year. Come on now.

I'm just saying, whenever there's someone trying to pull the "this was gonna happen anyway"/"this was better than the alternative" card(or something like that), look up what they've been saying about the merger in the Acquisition OT and it all makes sense.

[benji]

The OP of that thread is another great job at reading the article they're quoting:

The court turned down a broader challenge by the same group that sought to overturn the decadesold approval of the drug for use in abortions — arguments that could have effectively banned the pills nationwide.

The supreme court's decision could basically abolish the FDA by allowing random judges to unilaterally ban any medication they want. Great country we have here.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Just goes to show how uninformed many are about their opinions.

[Alpacx]

CuntyCunt' in the Constructive thread:

There needs to be something done more on this site for what is happening regarding the entire situation of trans genocide. A thread gets made of officials openly talking abouy plans, and it barely makes a blip. It's beyond disheartening and demoralizing on a consistent of basis of zero caring.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/post-118330086

Maybe because you lot shout down to all the people who are asking how they can help, and tell them to stay in their lane? Take the hint that no one wants to waste their time conversing because they know they'll just get told to fuck off and ban-baited.

Trans Threads Post Quotas Now.

From the O to the P Trans Women Will be Free

[Boredfrom]

Shit, I only went to see it out of obligation to support Iman Vellani and Teyonah Parris.

You fucking mark.

[benji]

JEFF CHECK:

Earlier, Jeff deleted a number of his tweets under that ResetERA.com related thread:

[Boredfrom]

The watch stopped and the people are sick of cape movies people are right for the first time today.

*Looks at Box Office numbers for Spider-verse and GOTG3*

"It is like both are kind of disconnected from the shared universe stuff."

[Uncle]

they keep whining about how nobody knows about the trans genocide when for all the constant posting and handwringing they do on the site, it would take like 10 minutes to copy and paste a new topic to replace the unstickied one

OR

if it was a legit emergency problem that the mods recognized, they would just say "oops our bad" and re-sticky it

but they don't because the whole YOU ARE NOW ON STEP 8 shit is fucking embarrassing

they want a thread to spread awareness and talk shit about all the bills in congress or whatever, but it HAS TO be couched in this genocide framing, even as an ACTUAL palestinian genocide is taking place that makes them look utterly looney

they can't just make a thread like "the US is actively trying to destroy trans people" and leave it at that

[FEUER FREI.]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

B-Dumbs "On break"

I'm saying this as just me, the other mods and admins have nothing to do with this, but I gotta say it.

The fact is, the idea that moderation around the Acti-blizz acquisition has been colored by my daring to mention the fact I actually bothered to try investing for the first time has been going around for about a year and a half now, maybe more. The Sony warriors have been on this stance for ages now, I got warned about it a long time ago. They've been pushing this nonsense for ages and seeing people I considered friends, people who knew what I've sacrificed ,seemingly buying into it was horrifying to me. People who said nothing in the face of the nonsense.

This pushing of the discussion point about posters and their investing is just people pushing that same stuff in a way they think people won't realize.

After all the insane shit I've been through, after all I've sacrificed--my mental health, my physical health, what is probably the future I should have had--nothing has offended me more than this. Nothing has made me angrier. Every time I've tried to write up a post about all this it just turns to furious anger, threatening fire and brimstone to those pushing this nonsense.

You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky.

There was someone earlier in this thread who mentioned how certain posters use progressive language to push platform warring and they are correct. Could we have been harder on the Xbox warriors? Absolutely. Were all the Sony guys in good faith? Hell no they weren't.

The new age of the platform warrior isn't about box power or game quality, it's been all about "my company is more moral/ethical than your company is."

That's the battle we're all fighting and we've all been aware of it for a few years now. You're all just catching up.

You can see it in some of the posts about how Sony managed to avoid this or how Iwata cut his salary first. It's all just a new age of platform warring, clad in leftist rhetoric so as to hide from those not paying attention.

None of these companies give a shit. They're all bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. Arguing which is the best is like arguing which is the best smelling turd. They all smell like shit and they always have.

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind.

Basically, what I'm saying is the people pushing this whole "dubs is a millionaire bought out by M$" piss me off to a degree I've never dealt with before. I've been accused of 200 different kinds of bigotry and xenophobia over the years because we wouldn't let people go off on each other and break the rules without consequences. But this? I've never been as angry or offended in my life and I've been driven to suicidal ideation a few times.

Keep in mind this is all me on a personal level. If anything official gets said it won't be coming from me. I'm so angry I don't trust myself to do it and so it'll come from another admin. I just had to say something, to push back on the nonsense, or go insane.

Anyway, I'm taking some time away. Sorry to everyone on staff if I made your jobs harder, I just couldn't keep quiet anymore.

B-Dumbs, this all the fault of you letting certain groups on that forum walk all over you + useless fucks like Nepnep. These people are insidious and play you against people, JUST like they do with the rest of the forum like ban baiting. If you just stop letting people run their cliques on that forum between poliera, trans mafia era, console warriors, tankies, etc, things would be much better. 


"I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind."

this is the same shit many people on that forum experience from the cunts

Just fucking ban those stupid cunts. You and everyone and the forum would be better off. Get on it B-Dumbs and become B-Based. You might redeem yourself for your own sanity

start with nepnep

 

[Uncle]

and, you know, again, what places anywhere on earth are more friendly to trans people than the West

"oh I'm going to flee to nigeria where they actually value trans lives and provide free estrojections"

[Besticus Maximus]

bdubs confirming he was playing with stock prices

[Boredfrom]

I cant follow Bdumbs' conversation, frei. I understand that is a lot of quotes but...

[TylenolJones]

Terrorists win!!!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Who's going to tone police jews now that B-dubs is gone on break?

[kaleidoscopium]

B-Dumbs is in a bad spot because if he bans the retards there would be no one left, they've ran all the normal people off. Imagine the recruitment drive they would have to do for users "we banned all the weirdos!! please come back!!"

[FEUER FREI.]

I cant follow Bdumbs' conversation, frei. I understand that is a lot of quotes but...

that's the funny thing, there is no quotes. i cleaned up the line breaks from copy paste now. but that is his entire reply to one person, Android Sophia:

Well, wasn't quite the point I was making. It's more just that... how do you enforce it without resulting in a chilling effect?

If you put such a policy in place, those who have an interest in discussing the topic will just shut up about stocks. So that topic becomes instantly taboo to them so they can discuss another one. Those who don't will keep talking about stocks, and probably find themselves accidentally threadbanned. What will they do when they're accidentally threadbanned? Probably leave Era. Or lash out. That's usually what people do when they feel they've been wronged. Neither is beneficial for the site.

Plus, yes, Staff can theoretically track thread bans. But it's a goddamn waste of time. Who wants to do that? Moderation is tedious enough as is, especially for a volunteer team. Do you really want to subject the staff to "Oh yup, Sophia here has stocks in Microsoft. Make note of it and keep an eye on her going forward for any time Microsoft acquires something and she starts posting in the mergers and acquisitions thread!" times however many members Era has? That would suck to have to do on top of all the other volunteer obligations.

And of course, members have no restraint. The moment they realize such a policy is in place, you WILL have someone doing detective work and going on a witch hunt. And you won't know they're doing this until after they've already done. If you're lucky, it'll come in the form of a report, or a DM ,or a ticket. Odds are it'll come in the form of an open post tho for all to see

Purely regarding this idea, and nothing else, it is just not solid moderation policy. There's no way to make it solid moderation policy, either. Plain and simple.

[Potato]

New conspiracy theory from Resetera, secret fake author of new movie is actually JK Rowling. 

I heard people theorize it's J.K. Rowling. As terrible as she is, she has already written under a pseudonym to write a spy-thriller series, Vaughn has said the movie is like Harry Potter but with spies, and not many authors would have the pull to get a $200 million film adaptation made for a book that hasn't been released yet.

The article brings up it might be Tammy Cohen but it being Rowlings and Vaughn not wanting to say who she makes a lot of sense

I forgot to mention that as well, but yeah, that's another point that gives that theory some credence. With how stacked the cast is and how much money is in this, they likely wouldn't want to risk associating her toxic-ass to this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/argylle-ot-from-the-mind-of-elly-conway.810609/?post=118330581#post-118327062

This shit is so funny because the ONLY way Joanne (TERF cunt) would use a pseudonym is if she herself insisted on a pseudonym being used. She's one of the only authors in the world whose name has the pull to make a film a success on its own. No way a studio is squandering that because "they likely wouldn't want to risk associating her toxic-ass to this."

[Potato]

CuntyCunt' in the Constructive thread:

There needs to be something done more on this site for what is happening regarding the entire situation of trans genocide. A thread gets made of officials openly talking abouy plans, and it barely makes a blip. It's beyond disheartening and demoralizing on a consistent of basis of zero caring.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/post-118330086

Maybe because you lot shout down to all the people who are asking how they can help, and tell them to stay in their lane? Take the hint that no one wants to waste their time conversing because they know they'll just get told to fuck off and ban-baited.

Maybe everyone just read the thread and realised there ain't no genocide happening?

[Uncle]

I swear this mother fucker is the gaming equivalent of Patrick Tomlinson

"noooo stalker child, I think you will find it is you who is the shit stain, and not I. enjoy prison!"

[Boredfrom]

But this? I've never been as angry or offended in my life and I've been driven to suicidal ideation a few times.

Dude, is a video game forum…

[DocWager]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

B-Dumbs "On break"

I'm saying this as just me, the other mods and admins have nothing to do with this, but I gotta say it.

The fact is, the idea that moderation around the Acti-blizz acquisition has been colored by my daring to mention the fact I actually bothered to try investing for the first time has been going around for about a year and a half now, maybe more. The Sony warriors have been on this stance for ages now, I got warned about it a long time ago. They've been pushing this nonsense for ages and seeing people I considered friends, people who knew what I've sacrificed ,seemingly buying into it was horrifying to me. People who said nothing in the face of the nonsense.

This pushing of the discussion point about posters and their investing is just people pushing that same stuff in a way they think people won't realize.

After all the insane shit I've been through, after all I've sacrificed--my mental health, my physical health, what is probably the future I should have had--nothing has offended me more than this. Nothing has made me angrier. Every time I've tried to write up a post about all this it just turns to furious anger, threatening fire and brimstone to those pushing this nonsense.

You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky.

There was someone earlier in this thread who mentioned how certain posters use progressive language to push platform warring and they are correct. Could we have been harder on the Xbox warriors? Absolutely. Were all the Sony guys in good faith? Hell no they weren't.

The new age of the platform warrior isn't about box power or game quality, it's been all about "my company is more moral/ethical than your company is."

That's the battle we're all fighting and we've all been aware of it for a few years now. You're all just catching up.

You can see it in some of the posts about how Sony managed to avoid this or how Iwata cut his salary first. It's all just a new age of platform warring, clad in leftist rhetoric so as to hide from those not paying attention.

None of these companies give a shit. They're all bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. Arguing which is the best is like arguing which is the best smelling turd. They all smell like shit and they always have.

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind.

Basically, what I'm saying is the people pushing this whole "dubs is a millionaire bought out by M$" piss me off to a degree I've never dealt with before. I've been accused of 200 different kinds of bigotry and xenophobia over the years because we wouldn't let people go off on each other and break the rules without consequences. But this? I've never been as angry or offended in my life and I've been driven to suicidal ideation a few times.

Keep in mind this is all me on a personal level. If anything official gets said it won't be coming from me. I'm so angry I don't trust myself to do it and so it'll come from another admin. I just had to say something, to push back on the nonsense, or go insane.

Anyway, I'm taking some time away. Sorry to everyone on staff if I made your jobs harder, I just couldn't keep quiet anymore.

B-Dumbs, this all the fault of you letting certain groups on that forum walk all over you + useless fucks like Nepnep. These people are insidious and play you against people, JUST like they do with the rest of the forum like ban baiting. If you just stop letting people run their cliques on that forum between poliera, trans mafia era, console warriors, tankies, etc, things would be much better. 


"I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind."

this is the same shit many people on that forum experience from the cunts

Just fucking ban those stupid cunts. You and everyone and the forum would be better off. Get on it B-Dumbs and become B-Based. You might redeem yourself for your own sanity

start with nepnep

 

Can’t wait till we bush Benji this far.

[Boredfrom]

If you have the money to play in the stock market, why you keep the forum festering with the anti capitalist “blame investors for everything wrong” rhetoric ? Why you are surprised that the forum sees you like a double faced asshole?

[HaughtyFrank]

You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky.

Da fuck?

[kaleidoscopium]

Is this where we find out that B Dumbs is actually yet another personality unit inside of Android Sophia?

[Pwnz]

Dubs might be an okay person that bought into neps stuff. I don't know. Whatever man take care of yourself and maybe rethink moderation policies...maybe moderating discussion without a face instead becoming personally invested in curating consensus is a good idea? What do I know

I haven't kept up with this drama so I have no idea who is in the wrong. If he owned a tiny bit of msft stock, whatever, everyone with domestic large cap has msft. Like probably 1/3 people.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

B-Dumbs "On break"

I'm saying this as just me, the other mods and admins have nothing to do with this, but I gotta say it.

The fact is, the idea that moderation around the Acti-blizz acquisition has been colored by my daring to mention the fact I actually bothered to try investing for the first time has been going around for about a year and a half now, maybe more. The Sony warriors have been on this stance for ages now, I got warned about it a long time ago. They've been pushing this nonsense for ages and seeing people I considered friends, people who knew what I've sacrificed ,seemingly buying into it was horrifying to me. People who said nothing in the face of the nonsense.

This pushing of the discussion point about posters and their investing is just people pushing that same stuff in a way they think people won't realize.

After all the insane shit I've been through, after all I've sacrificed--my mental health, my physical health, what is probably the future I should have had--nothing has offended me more than this. Nothing has made me angrier. Every time I've tried to write up a post about all this it just turns to furious anger, threatening fire and brimstone to those pushing this nonsense.

You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky.

There was someone earlier in this thread who mentioned how certain posters use progressive language to push platform warring and they are correct. Could we have been harder on the Xbox warriors? Absolutely. Were all the Sony guys in good faith? Hell no they weren't.

The new age of the platform warrior isn't about box power or game quality, it's been all about "my company is more moral/ethical than your company is."

That's the battle we're all fighting and we've all been aware of it for a few years now. You're all just catching up.

You can see it in some of the posts about how Sony managed to avoid this or how Iwata cut his salary first. It's all just a new age of platform warring, clad in leftist rhetoric so as to hide from those not paying attention.

None of these companies give a shit. They're all bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. Arguing which is the best is like arguing which is the best smelling turd. They all smell like shit and they always have.

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind.

Basically, what I'm saying is the people pushing this whole "dubs is a millionaire bought out by M$" piss me off to a degree I've never dealt with before. I've been accused of 200 different kinds of bigotry and xenophobia over the years because we wouldn't let people go off on each other and break the rules without consequences. But this? I've never been as angry or offended in my life and I've been driven to suicidal ideation a few times.

Keep in mind this is all me on a personal level. If anything official gets said it won't be coming from me. I'm so angry I don't trust myself to do it and so it'll come from another admin. I just had to say something, to push back on the nonsense, or go insane.

Anyway, I'm taking some time away. Sorry to everyone on staff if I made your jobs harder, I just couldn't keep quiet anymore.

B-Dumbs, this all the fault of you letting certain groups on that forum walk all over you + useless fucks like Nepnep. These people are insidious and play you against people, JUST like they do with the rest of the forum like ban baiting. If you just stop letting people run their cliques on that forum between poliera, trans mafia era, console warriors, tankies, etc, things would be much better. 


"I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind."

this is the same shit many people on that forum experience from the cunts

Just fucking ban those stupid cunts. You and everyone and the forum would be better off. Get on it B-Dumbs and become B-Based. You might redeem yourself for your own sanity

start with nepnep

 

The nepnep age of Resetera has begun

Let the insanity begin!!!!!

[Nintex]

Unban me B-Dubs, make me admin.

Anyone here that still posts on that shithole, now is the time to open threads to ask for the return of Nintex. 

I will get this shit sorted out ASAP. With your support we can make ResetEra great again. 

I've been on GAF, NeoGAF, TheBore, ResetEra, D-Pad Life, all the Discords and now The Bire. I get along with the Playstationers, Xbots, PC Master Race and Nintendies. I even have actual industry contacts. My ability to keep even the worst trolls in line is unmatched. I'm talking about turning literal anti-semites and Nation of Islam / Malcom X boys into cute little puppies. 
And no matter how many times the soys say "Fuck off Nintex" I never ever back down and they will leave by themselves. I won't even have to ban them.

I am the only one who can fix her and who is willing to fix her. I will give you back your freedom from the gang of lunatics that has hijacked your boards.
The videogame industry would respect you and start posting again. 

You all know it.